"Roskomnadzor sent letters to the management of social networks demanding to come to explain the responsibility of these platforms for not removing calls to participate in illegal mass actions," the message says.
The department recalled that violation of the procedure for restricting access to prohibited information by the owner of the resource on the Internet entails a fine of 800 thousand to 4 million rubles.
In addition, they stated that the law allows "to block prohibited information if it is not deleted."
Earlier, Roskomnadzor noted that social networks are actively removing new calls for teenagers to participate in unauthorized actions.
In addition, the department reported that Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki and YouTube will be fined.